While Fei Lei healed up, he was observed with close scrutiny by his new teacher.
"Stop trying to breathe with your lungs, breathe with your entire body, every pore, and cell in your body can absorb the Ather in the air. Now quit complaining and circulate the air in your lungs in the pattern I showed you," Tetra commanded as he slapped Fei Lei on the top of his head with a piece of straw that he somehow made feel like stone,
"Don't waste any energy, thinking about other things, clear your mind and focus." A clacking noise rang out as Tetra slapped Fei Lei in the back of the head.
"Your breathing is too slow, faster by 30 nano-seconds," Tetra shouted as he slapped his head again.
"Your breathing needs to be more natural, stop thinking about it, and feel it instead." Another slap to the back of his head echoed throughout the room, these methods continued and were drilled into his body over the next six years.
The day was scorching and the dry air left most slaves with heat stroke or worse. A 10-year-old Fei Lei could be seen clearing a field full of boulders with his grouping of slaves.
Fei Lei had grown well over the years. He was covered in scars, but Fei Lei's physique had grown strong. Fei Lei's physique looked like a professional athlete at the peak of his build, his entire body was bulked with muscle that looked like they shouldn't belong on a child.
His group was currently working to clear out a site so their owners could begin construction on a massive scale.
No one knew what they were building, and no slave would dare to have mind enough to ask.
The heat only got worse as the day went on. When Fei Lei got his 20-Minute break, he ran towards his master shouting out with an innocent smile, "Teacher! Teacher, guess what?"
The old man had tanned something fierce, but Tetra, unlike others didn't have a single drop of sweat tainting his body.
"What is it, Fei Lei?" Tetra responded as he slammed his pic-axe into the stone bolder in front of him shattering it.
"Aluna can move things with her mind!" Fei Lei said speaking fondly of Aluna.
She was a slave girl that was part of the group of friends that Fei Lei had managed to make here despite their unfortunate circumstances.
She had sky blue hair and sapphire-colored eyes.
Tetra furrowed his brows and asked, "Really? Is what you say, true?"
"Yeah, Aluna held her hand out towards one of the boulders and lifted it with ease." Fei Lei said with a fascinated grin on his face,
A shocked look crossed Tetra's face, he grabbed Fei Lei's hands and with a worried tone, cried out, "Where is Aluna now?"
"Over by the Slavers Hut! Why? What's wrong?" Fei Lei questioned as he saw the look of worry on his teacher's face.
"No time to explain, follow me!" Tetra shouted as he dropped his pick-axe and started running.
When they arrived at the facility, the scene that was displayed before the two shook them to their cores.
Three of Fei Lei's best friends laid on the ground in a pool of their own blood and their bodies riddled full of holes,
Aluna was beaten to a pulp, the slaver holding her by the hair was talking to what looked to be a man that radiating an evil aura.
The man was part of the magic society and looked to be a high ranking member, based on how fancy his robes were. He had shaggy shoulder-length black hair, his eyes were crimson red, and held a monstrous aura within them. He was wearing a custom dark blue overcoat and held a steam-punk, gun-like object holstered at his hip.
When the man reached out to grab Aluna, Fei Lei lost it.
Unable to contain his rage any longer, Fei Lei lunged at the slave-guard and clutched the back of his head before kneeing him square in the jaw as hard as he could.
Teeth and blood sprayed from the man's mouth as he fell to the ground while the unconscious Aluna fell over with him.
Fei Lei couldn't hear Tetra yelling at him to stop his assault when he rolled over to the next guard and swept him off of his feet with a graceful and almost dance-like kick.
As the slaver's body slightly came off the ground, Fei Lei went straight into an immediate horizontal spinning elbow and slammed it into the slaver's chest the very moment his back hit the ground.
Fei Lei then jumped up from his prone back effortlessly, but before he could start his dash towards the demonic-looking man, the dark mage pulled out a small magically enhanced pistol and shot at the enraged child.
Tetra leaped between them and tried to stop the bullet, but, it ended up being a pointless action as the magic shot ripped through Tetra's upper torso and flew towards Fei Lei's head.
Seconds before his death, Aluna awoke the moment the bullet made contact and screamed as the round started to pierce through the flesh on Fei Lei's forehead.
A psychic flow of energy shook the grounds and for a split moment, everything in a hundred-mile radius went weightless.
As Aluna collapsed a massive shockwave tore through the region sending thousands of slaves and slavers alike flying through the air, the only ones in the center of this great turbulence were, the Evil Mage, Aluna, Fei Lei, and Tetra.
Tetra had managed to dig most of his forearm down into the ground, all the while keeping hold Fei Lei's body with his other hand.
"HAHAHAHHA" The Dark Mage began to laugh menacingly "Amazing; just amazing, to think such power came from such an innocent little girl! What a monster!"
Tetra began growing impatient as he bit the bottom part of his lip just hard enough to bleed, when suddenly, he heard the sound of his pupil roaring "SHE'S NOT A MONSTER! SHE'S MY PRECIOUS FRIEND!"
Fei Lei thought of times when Aluna tended to his wounds, the moments his friends had together protecting one another from the beatings, the years they spent together were gone and she was the only one left.
Fei Lei jumped out from Tetra's grasp and tried to jump kick the Dark Mage in the side of his face.
The malefic man grinned at the boy's pitiful attempt to attack and easily deflected him with a single swat of his arm.
While Fei Lei rolling through the dirt, The evil-looking Mage smiled and said, "You should be dead that was a magic missile it never misses its mark. Why do you continue to court death?"
Fei Lei pulled himself up from the ground while a trail of blood ran down his face, the hole in his forehead was deep enough to show the exposed skull with only a slight fracture in on it.
Fei Lei ripped part of his sleeve and tied it around his head before the boy's fierce young eyes glared down the vile man and he shouted, "She saved my life! COULD A MONSTER CARE ABOUT A FRIEND EVEN WHEN HER OWN LIFE WAS ENDANGERED, HUH? YOU JACKASS!!"
Fei Lei felt his master pat his head before saying "Alright that's enough out of you I'll take it from here. I thought you were dead you twerp."
Fei Lei turned around to see his Teacher as a different man, his jaw dropped in awe because of how drastic the and quickly this change was happening.
It was as if twenty years of his old age had faded away, the wound tunneling through his chest healed almost instantly.
Silver steam started to form over the wounds on his body when he said, "To think she destroyed the magic canceller from all the way over here! That really was one hell of a psionic shockwave, almost killed me too, but thanks to her I got my second wind."
The Dark Mage looked at the girl, then at the boy, and then back to Tetra before saying, "Such impossible turns of events keep occurring in succession. I just came here for a simple task, just how much more is going to get in my way?"
The Dark Mage then glared down at the Student and Teacher pair before saying, "It doesn't matter you all be dead anyway."
"Before you kill us can I ask you the name of the one who will slay me?" Tetra mocked.
"Ucifer If you must know!" he raised his gun and pointed it at the boy again expecting Tetra to jump in front of the bullet's path, but he didn't. Instead, Tetra had moved so fast that Ucifer couldn't follow him with his eyes, and the pistol in his hand had been shattered by a single thrust of Tetra's palm thrust.
Without hesitation Tetra attempted to continue his attack by elbowing the Mage at the bottom of his jaw, however, Ucifer managed to dodge it by a hair's breadth.
"This is surprising! How is a mortal without using Mana able to move so quickly? Are you of the Fye or Demon Clan, or perhaps you are a Fey?"
Tetra didn't lose focus as he immediately followed up with a fierce palm to the stomach; but that to was no use as well, as Ucifer leapt into the air avoiding the attack entirely.
Massive bat-like wing suddenly sprouted from Ucifer's back as he took flight and said, "I would love to stay and kill you but I don't fight battles when victory is uncertain. Today, there have too many inconceivable variables to account for, so before any more reoccur I'll be taking my leave."
The tips of Ucifer's index and middle fingers began to glow, a blue hue of pearlescent colors trailed following his hand as he carved a pentagram into the air.
As Ucifer drew the final glyph into the pentagram he whispered "Demons Door!"
Suddenly, a demonic-looking crystalline archway appeared floating next to the demonic man, on its surface depicted the image of several hundred Demonic beings eating each other.
Fei Lei couldn't even begin to grasp the situation he was witnessing while Tetra looked on with a furious expression.
"Stop if you risk taking her through that miasma you know what will happen to her? She's human not a Demon like you!" Tetra roared out.
The Demon Ucifer looked at the two of them and made a wily grin showing his razor-sharp teeth, he suddenly vanished from sight and reappeared next to Fei Lei's fallen friends, "This too could be considered to be an unexpected turn of events"
With another flash of speed, he picked the three kids up and dashed back to the door.
When Ucifer was moments away from flying through the portal, the Demonic man suddenly felt a tug on the girl's body.
The Demon Mage looked back to see Fei Lei with his arm stretched out as if he were reaching for Aluna.
Something was changing inside his body, his Human Transfiguration Sigil appeared above his forehead while altering a section of his brain, mutating it through instinct.
Fei Lei didn't know where this knowledge was coming from, but it felt as if some unknown force was guiding him to create a new pathway in his brain.
Fei Lei's Spell Sigil continued to glow as it altered the internal structure of his brain and unlocked his psionic powers.
"Stubborn child" Ucifer raise his hand and pointed his finger at Fei Lei.
"Give her back!" The boy yelled as blood began to run down his nose and ears.
The pull attached to Aluna's body was growing stronger and stronger by the second, when all of a sudden, a bolt of energy shot towards the struggling child.
"Fei Lei dodge it! I can't deflect that!" Tetra wailed, Fei Lei jumped back and lost control over his grip, and before he could lock on to Aluna's body again, the door had disappeared along with Ucifer and his captive.
"Nooo!" Fei Lei cried out as he smashed his fist against the earth repeatedly.
Tetra ran to his side to stop him and placed his arm on the boy's shoulder before saying, "It's not your fault, Fei Lei..."
While Fei Lei continued to slam his fist into the ground, tearing his hands up, Tetra grabbed Fei Lei's bloodied hands as he said, "Stop! It isn't your fault, Fei Lei!
"Isn't it though? Fei Lei interrupted his teacher before continuing to say, "I was too weak! Again! Urk!" A spurt of blood came from his skull as Fei Lei's eyes ran to the back of his head and collapsed face forward into the dirt.
Fei Lei slept for months this time, once again, he experienced seeing the fragmented memories of his previous incarnation.
This time they were much more fluid and direct; like he was watching someone's life in fast forward, it started at the beginning, as the abandoned baby, dropped off at a rundown orphanage.
As he grew up, the child had an estranged personality, curious about everything and anything he saw. It was when the boy read his first book, that he discovered that he was a scientist through and through.
When he was 8 years old when he entered college, when he was 12 years old, he graduated from a prestigious university. Isaac mastered every course they offered, with nothing left to learn from schools, Fei Lei only saw sections of these classes thus giving him a skewed perspective on many of the subjects.
Suddenly it moved to a time when he began to search the world to gather any and every bit of information he could get his hands on.
Nothing was too outlandish for him to research, the scientist poured every second of his entire life into understanding every piece of information that passed his eyes.
By the time he was twenty one no other human on the planet could be considered intelligent to him anymore. It was like comparing man's intellect to a monkey's.
Vast amounts of subjects from science and pseudo sciences filled Fei Lei with wonder. As it turned out the monks and martial artists of earth speculations were somewhat correct. Although Mana and Ather is almost nonexistent in his old realm, the martial arts and meditation methods developed allowed them to access, all be it in a weaker form, a similar type of energy.
The estranged scientist spent many years studying the benefits martial arts had to the body, and thanks to that Fei Lei had a compendium of Earth's cultivation techniques.
He quickly became curious to see what the effects of such techniques had in this world.
When he finally awoke, he saw that his master had been carrying him over his shoulder.
"Teacher!" Fei Lei shouted in surprise.
Tetra looked back at the boy in shock as he removed him from his shoulder and placed him down before saying, "I'm so glad you're okay! You had me worried there."
Fei Lei tried to stand up, but his legs gave out, as he started to fall his teacher reached out to grab him.
Fei Lei held his hand out as if to say, "I got this."
The boy then straightened his back while saying, "I'm okay! I need to get stronger and I can't do that by sitting on my ass."